Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,111, Apollos Eddy, [BLANK]

SERVICE
NUMBER
Eddy, Apollos Apollos or Martha.
N. 16. III
CONTENTS

2298
Massachusetts
Abigail Dwy
of Bristol the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain  of the Regt commanded by  in the  line for  Days
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 23 Dollars 55 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd day of June 1832 and sent to  J. L. Hovey  
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $35.32 Pension allowance ending 
$27.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by  Clerk. Book  Vol.  Page 

Reported 1888 March 29 F. H. Eddy - History Prof 1892 Feb 2 - sent to P. H. Theard - Office
Massachusetts 3873. Martha Edity widow of Solomon Edity
who died on the 14 th February 1840 of Bristol Co. in the State of Massachusetts who was a Private in the _____ commanded by Captain Mas of the _____ commanded by _____ in the _____ line for _____ 90 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 25 Dollars 55 Cents per annum. to commence on the 1 st 15 th February 1840 to commence on the 1 st 1 st day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of April 1843 and sent to Mr. Merrill Esq. Treasurer Mass.
Arrears to the 1 st of Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 rd }
Recorded by _____ Clerk. Book _____ Vol. _____ Page 53

Washington D.C. January 55 th 1833.
I hereby certify that Paul Eddy and Timothy White, the witnesses herein, are credible. and that the Magistrate, Cornelius Leonard is a duly qualified Justice of the Peace.
James L. Shockey
Ms. A. 9. 2. 20. 4843.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
BRISTOL, ss.
At a COURT OF PROBATE holden at Fauntou in and for said County on the Twenty ninth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, before the Honorable HODIAH BAYLIES , Judge of the Probate, &c. for said County, personally appeared Nicholas Eddy , a resident of Fauntou in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, aged seventy nine years , who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832, make the following declaration.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as hereinafter stated; to wit: under Captain Isaac Taylor in Col. Dyer's regiment. He marched on the 22nd day of June in the year 1777, to Saratoga, and was there with the other company officers under Generals Schuyler, Gates and Stark, and was present in the Battle of Bennington; and was then promoted to the rank of Captain in Col. Dyer's Regiment. And he continued in said service until the 19th day of October.
and further declares as follows, in reply to the interrogatories propounded by the Secretary of War; to wit:
 1. Where, and in what year were you born? Ans. That he was born in Fauntou in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, on the 22nd day of February of that year .  2. Have you any record of your age; and if so, where is it? Ans. There is no record of my age that I know of, except what I have kept myself, and that is that I was 12 years of age in 1777.  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? Ans. Fauntou, Bristol. 
 4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? and if a substitute, for whom? Ans. I was drafted, and I was a substitute for my son, who was drafted. 
 5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops when you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service. alluded to above. I marched from said Soldier's Island to ... and a short time before the ... I was present at the Battle of Bennington, and I served the remainder of said campaign. I was present at the Battle of Saratoga, and I know that I served the time nearly to the end of the campaign. I was present at the Battle of Bennington, and I served the remainder of said campaign. I was present at the Battle of Saratoga, and I know that I served the time nearly to the end of the campaign. I was present at the Battle of Bennington, and I served the remainder of said campaign. I was present at the Battle of Saratoga, and I know that I served the time nearly to the end of the campaign. 

6 Were you a Soldier or an Officer? if a Soldier, did you ever receive a discharge from the service; and, if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? if an Officer, did you ever receive a commission, and if so by whom was it signed, and what has become of it? I was a soldier and never had any written discharge.
7. State the names of the persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution.
To the Rev d Pitt Clark of Norton a town adjoining Fair Taunton & to the Hon. James L. Hodge, Esq r Taunton
And the said Apollas Eddy doth further declare that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State, or (if any) subject to that of the Agency of the State of  Apollas Eddy
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
H. Baylies , Judge of Probate.
WE Pitt Clarke a Clergyman — residing in Norton adjoining said Taunton and James L. Hodge residing in the same Fair Taunton hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Apollas Eddy — who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be about  seventy nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Pitt Clarke, James L. Hodge
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
H. Baylies , Judge of Probate.
AND the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Pitt Clarke who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of Norton in said County of Bristol, and that Hon. James L. Hodge who has also signed the same is a resident in said town, and is a credible person, and that their — statement is entitled to credit.
H. Baylies , Judge of Probate.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
BRISTOL ss.
I Anselm Bassett Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Apollas Eddy of Taunton in said County, for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the said Court the day and year first above written.
Anselm Bassett

5.783.
Martha Eddy Mass ts
Act 4 July 31 D r Aug 23 1882
Admitted
Term of 2 days
$23.55 per ann.
E
A. Barrett Esq r Taunton Mass ts

Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Bristol County ss. on this sixth day of January eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before Oliver Merrill Judge of Probate for said County -
Martha Eddy a resident of Scituate in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts aged eighty six years Who being first duly sworn as the law directs, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836, and the Joint resolution of July 7 th 1838. That she is the widow of Apollas Eddy who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and served two or more campaigns in that war, and the said Apollas Eddy was pensioned under the Act of Congress of June 7 th 1832. She has no documentary evidence showing the service of her late husband in the Army, but has heard him say that he enlisted into the service of his country in the month of June 1776, from the Town of Scituate where he always resided, into a company commanded by Captain Isaac Shayer, in Col. Whitney's Regiment and served six months.
And also that he served one other term of between one and months in Col. Hathaway's Regiment & in Captain Pelatiah Eddy's company & she believes it was in the year 1779, and in the State of Rhode Island, and she believes he served some other short terms of service at various places. But she refers to his declaration for a pension now on file in the pension office at Washington & to the affidavit of Paul Eddy herunto annexed.
She further declares that she was married to the said Apollas Eddy on the twenty third day of February in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five [at the house of Paul Eddy who was a friend, and relative of her late husband] by the Rev. Mr. Barnum who was at that time, the Congregational Minister of Scituate. And that her said husband, the said Apollas Eddy died on the fourteenth day of February eighteen hundred and forty, and that she has remained his widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herunto annexed. She has no record of her marriage but believes it was recorded in the book of Marriages which used to be in said Town of Scituate & which was lately burnt or destroyed.

And she refers to the affidavit of Paul Eddy [as it is supposed by others] for proof of her Marriage, as he was present at her Marriage, & an eye witness of its solemnisation, & which affidavit is herunto annexed.
She further declares that she should have applied for a pension soon after the death of her late husband the said Abial Eddy. But was ignorant of the provisions of the laws of Congress on that subject herself, and was told by other persons, whom she now finds to have been as ignorant as herself, that only a part of the widows of Revolutionary soldiers were entitled to pensions, and that she had best be at no expense about it, and as she was indigent she accepted their advice, until now, when she believes she is better informed on the subject.
Witness
Martha Leonard
Martha X Eddy mark
Subscribed & sworn to before me
Oliver Prescott Judge of Probate.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. Benjamin Bannett Register of the Court of Probate in for said County do hereby certify that Oliver Prescott whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate, is the Judge of said Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this Seventh day of January Eighteen hundred Forty Three — Bannett

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Bristol County Ss. I Aaron Brand Register of the Court of Probate in & for the County of Bristol do hereby certify that Samuel Leonard is a Justice of the Peace in aforesaid County and that the signatures to the foregoing certificates purporting purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this seventh day of January eighteen hundred fiftythree A Brand

I Certify that Edmund Anthony is known by me to be a credible witness & subscribed this affidavit in my presence - C. Leonard Justice Peace.
I Edmund Anthony of Taunton in the County of Bristol and state of Massachusetts being thirty four years of age do testify & say that I once held the office of Town Clerk of the said Town of Taunton & once held said office since the year 1835: I once have had custody & charge of the several Books of Records of said Town during the period of nearly eight years more or less past and that in the month of September eighteen hundred and thirty eighth the building in which said Records were kept, was destroyed by fire and a portion of the Books of Records, among which was the Book that contained the records of the Ancient Marriages that had been solemnized in said Town, was lost, or destroyed, and has not since been discovered, found, or located. Witness my hand that I have been Collector of Taxes of said Town of Taunton for many years more or less past & that the property of said Town previously was long an inalienable of said Town and that the said Hall & his widow Martha Hall have been offered for a small real estate in said Town during the whole time that I have been collector -
Dec 16 th 1842.
Edmund Anthony (Seal like of Bristol)
State of Massachusetts
Bristol County - ss. Be it known That on the 16 th day of December 1842. Before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace within & for said County, personally appeared Edmund Anthony, above named & made oath to the truth of this affidavit by him subscribed. Cromwell Leonard Justice Peace -

Map N. 21, 8113 Upolu Eddy
Private
7 Mos & 2 days
adm.
June 2 1893
$23.50
Dep 200
40 - 2 90 25 22

BRIEF in the case of  Isaac Eddy of the County  of Bristol in the State of Mass.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court,  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 79 years.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Jn 1796 June 0 — Private. Gen. Whitney, Capt. Thayer.   " 79 1 2 Volunt. Gen. Hathaway, Capt. Eddy.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None.  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Taunton.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Depositions.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Levin P. Dyer Examining Clerk.

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
L. V. B. W. 16111.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV. REVOLUTIONARY.
July 7, 1897.
Sir:-
Replying to your request for information concerning Apollos Eddy , a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on August 29th, 1832, at which time he was 79 years of age and residing at Taunton, Mass., and his pension was allowed for seven months and two days' actual service as private in the Mass. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Thayer and Col. Whitney. He enlisted at Taunton, Mass.
His widow, Martha, made application and received a pension for the service of her husband as above set forth.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner
Mr. W. P. Wetherall,
Board of Review,
Pension Bureau.

F 1611 Martha born Aug 1832 at Uniontown aged 70 years - buried Apollon Jan 1833  at  Uniontown  Jan 1833  at  Uniontown Entered June 1850 with Capt. Hovey, Col. Michigan P-I Bn. at  Uniontown Discharged at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown going to Little Compton R.I. for 1850 a at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown Unionville Jan 1850 at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown she died at at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown  at  Uniontown 
over

Then about child born July 17, 6 - wife dead in 1842. " " " July, 842 over 61 yrs
Genus
Genus Boston
Conmunication

16111
Apollon Eddy & wife! Martha.
M.P. Weltner

16 111 W.
O.W. & N. Div.
Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington D.C. 1897
Respectfully returned to the writer, who is requested to furnish for purposes of identification as much as possible of the information asked for below.
Wm Lockhart
Commission
Full name of soldier
Appolos Eddy
Place of residence before service
(Town, county, and State if possible)
Fauntin Mass
Place of residence after service
(Town, county, and State if possible)
Fauntin, Mass
Date of death (as near as possible)
Christian name of widow
Martha
Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
yes
Remarks
Hales
Your name and address
W.P. Mettenell Bd. of Review Pension Bureau
Bureau of Pensions.
Appolos Eddy
Mars, cont. dim
Inv. & widow claim.
I desire full military and family history as shown by papers.
W.P. Mettenell
B. Rev. July 7. 1897
Widow's name Martha Eddy.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
Paper exam. by W.P. Withnell B of R. Rev. B. ... Jan 2/96 H.
File No. 16111
Martha Kelly William Martha Kelly 1881
July 7 97 Sticks W.P. Withnell B of Rev.
Act: 1881
Index: — Vol. 4 , Page 1
[Arrangement of 1870.]
✓ - 10 Pen B.

Fauntleroy Jan'y. 14. 1843
Sir,
Accompanying this is the application of Martha Eddy widow of Apollo Eddy late of Fauntleroy, declared for a pension —
Any communication you may be pleased to make relative thereto may be made to me —
Very respectfully,
Your Obedt. Servt
A. Basset
J. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington —

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Abraham Eddy which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? VII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? VIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

I Paul Eddy of Sumpton being fifty-two years of age do hereby testify & say that I serve as a revolutionary Soldier in Captain Isaac Shayers Company a Short time at the close of a six month campaign in which Apollo Eddy had enlisted & engaged to serve. He the said Apollo Eddy was taken dangerously sick the last part of said campaign & hired me to make out the time of his engagement, he continued sick and unable to do any service until after the close of said campaign, I never served to the amount of six months in the revolutionary war, & have no claim to a pension under the act of Congress. The 7 th of June 1832
Dated at Sumpton August, 29 1832
P. Eddy
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol ss. Sumpton 29 August 1832 County ) Personally appeared Paul Eddy and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true. Before me Grand Leonard Justin No

I Timothy White of Saunton in the County of Bristol & State of Massachusetts being seventy one years of age do hereby testify and say that I have been well acquainted with Apollos Ladd of said Saunton a great number of years and that he served with me as a private soldier in the army of the American Revolution in a in a Six Months Campaign in a company commanded by Isaac Shayer and as I think in Col. Whitney's Regiment in the year 1776 at a place called Dorchester Nantasket in said State and that we served as volunteers and were called State Troops... and he the said Ladd knew with one other - Campaign of one month at Little Compton in the State of R.I. in a company commanded by Capt. Pelatiah Ladd and in Col. Dorrance's Regiment and this company was also volunteers and were called State Troops and said Ladd was in the year 1779 -
Dated at Saunton this 11 th day of August 1832
Timothy White

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol County }
Is Before me one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Bristol, personally appeared Timothy White Subscriber to the within Affidavit and made oath that the same is true in all its parts. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and quality this 11 th day of August A.D. 1832 - from Leonard Justice of the Peace

I Barzilla Eddy within named do further testify & say that Abner Eddy a Revolutionary soldier & the husband of Martha Eddy of this Town died on the fourteenth day of February eighteen hundred and forty and that the said Martha Eddy is now living in this Town And I do further testify & say that I have been acquainted with Paul Eddy of this Town being the Town of Falmouth in Bristol County Mass a for more than forty years now last- past, being the same Paul Eddy who has given testimony on this sheet, and that I do consider the said Paul Eddy a man of truth & veracity. -
Dated at Falmouth July 2 d 1843.
Barzilla Eddy
State of Massachusetts
Bristol County - Be it known that on the 2 d day of July 1843. Personally appeared Barzilla Eddy, subscriber to the above affidavit & made oath that the same is true in all its parts -
Before me Groom Second Justice

I Barzilla Eddy of Farmton in the county of Bristol & State of Massachusetts, being fifty eight years of age do hereby testify and say, that I have always lived in the said Town of Farmton and that I was well acquainted with Apollos Eddy who was a Revolutionary pensioner of said Town and is now deceased, and also with Martha Eddy who is now living in said Town and is the widow of the said Apollos, and that the said Apollos and Martha Eddy, have always been regular, and Respectable, Inhabitants & free holders in said Town, since my memorandum and for more than fifty years now last past - and that I was also well acquainted with their children which were six in number, born in lawful wedlock, and that the eldest of said children [as I have often learned from the mother, and heard her give the account more more than thirty years ago] was born in the month of February 18 Seventeen hundred and Twenty six, and that his name was also Apollos, and he is also deceased, and that she was at the time of his birth in her twentieth year of her age - and that William Eddy who was also one of their six children, died in this neighborhood in the month of July last past, and he was more than sixty one years of age - And I do further testify and say, that I have no interest whatever in the obtaining a pension for the said Martha Eddy.
Barzilla Eddy
Farmton 16 th Dec r 1842.
State of Massachusetts ss. Be it known that on the 16 th day of December 1842, Barzilla Eddy above named, a credible witness, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me Cromwell Leonard Justice Peace

I, Paul Eddy of Taunton in the county of Bristol & State of Massachusetts being ninety two years of age do hereby testify and say, that I was intimately acquainted with Martha Woodard who was the wife, and is now the widow, of Apollas Apollas Eddy late of said Taunton deceased, and I was well acquainted with her husband husband the said Apollas Eddy. And I do further testify and say, that the said Apollas Eddy and Martha Woodard were joined in Marriage at my dwelling house in said Taunton [the same house in which I now live] by the Rev. Caleb Barstow who was then the Congregational Minister of this Town, and they were married in my presence and the the said Marriage took place in the month of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty five, the same year that the Revolutionary war commenced - I remember the time of their marriage by my own age, at that time for I was then twenty five years old - and the said Apollas Eddy & his wife, and myself have always lived in the said Town of Taunton and in the same neighborhood and have always been well acquainted with each other. And I do further testify and say that I have no interest whatever in the obtaining a pension for the said widow - and I do further testify and say, that I know that the said Apollas Eddy was a Revolutionary Soldier and served in that war one campaign of six months in Captain Isaac Thayer's Company in the year 1776. He also served between one and two months in Captain Pelatiah Eddy's Company & I think it was in the year 1779.
P. Eddy
State of Massachusetts } Bristol County } ss. Be it known, that on the 2 nd day of Dec r 1842, Paul Eddy, subscriber to the above affidavit personally appeared and made oath that the same is true in all its parts. - Before me, Cromwell Leonard - Justice Peace
I, 15. I certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office and that Paul Eddy the subscriber is personally known to me to be a credible witness in my opinion. Cromwell Leonard Justice Peace

I Andrew Bigelow of Tainston in the County of Bristol State of Massachusetts Clergyman do hereby testify & say that I do firmly believe the statement made by the within named Paul Eddy in his affidavit within [so far as it regards the marriage of Charles Eddy & Martha Eddy now his widow] is true. for I well recollect of learning from the Town Records of said Town of Tainston before they were burned* that the Rev. Caleb Barnum was called to settle in the Ministry over the Congregational Parish in Tainston. [it being the same Congregational Society & Parish over which I was settled in April 1833] on the 24 th day of October Seventeen hundred and sixty eight and he accepted the call in December of the same year. and he died in the Ministry of said Parish in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy six & on the 23 rd day of August of the last mentioned year.
Tainston Dec r 16 th 1842. Andrew Bigelow
State of Massachusetts } Bristol County - } Be it known, that on the 16 th day of December 1842. Andrew Bigelow to me well known & a credible witness personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed. Before me Lemuel Justin Dyer
* N.B. The date of the settlement of the Rev. Mr. Barnum are taken from the records of the Parish as described in the foregoing paragraph.